At the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Sometimes great things start with humble […]
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VIDEO: 9/11 in First Hand Photographs
On September 11, 2001, Navy Times Norfolk Bureau Chief Mark Faram was onsite at […]
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Ghost Towns: Ingalls, Oklahoma
Dr. Robert F. McMurtry and Robert Beal founded Ingalls during Oklahoma’s first land rush, […]
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Big Trouble: The Legacy of Mountain Meadows
A bloody attack on an emigrant wagon train that occurred in a remote location […]
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Oklahoma’s Land Lottery: The Last Great Opening
In an attempt to modify the wild scrambles and disregard for law and order […]
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Oklahoma: The Sooner the Better
It used to be called Indian Territory, and then with the rush of white […]
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When Dodge City Hosted a Mexican Bullfight to Celebrate the Fourth
In 1884, Dodge City leaders hoped to revive the sinful cow town’s standing. Their answer: a real Mexican bullfight, billed as the first staged on U.S. soil.
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Carlisle Indian School Transformed Children
‘Kill the Indian, Save the Man’ Less than two years after the December 1890 […]
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She Was a Daisey in Oklahoma Territory
Pioneer, Sooner & newspaperwoman. Petite Nannita Daisey lifted her dusty skirts and plopped her […]
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Fireworks in the Old House Saloon
A drover and gambler shot it out. The 1884 Independence Day weekend in Dodge […]